SummerFest 2006: Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major

[ideader]

Wow, Its legen...wait for it...dary! Just so brilliant. A very good live performance and a brilliant play as well.

[LOTViolists]

Finally, an appropriate amount of applause!

[LOTViolists]

PAUL ****ING NEUBAUER <3

[wholegrainfirefly]

what is the piece that plays in the beginning of this video?? so beautiful..

[nosiesnetnieuws]

@wholegrainfirefly

It's the same piece; second movement.

[martas1med]

:) amazing

[jcsv12345]

I love this performance and video. By the way, please visit my classicalk music channel. I have already posted piano trios by Dvorak, & Tchaikovsky, and I am in the process of posting the Ravel Piano Trios.

[jcsv12345]

How do you get videos to be more than 10 minutes?

[whit838]

Is there a reason the pianist is playing the opening rhythm wrong? It seems most people play it like this but it's not the way it's written. Does anybody have an explanation?

[wintersunllc]

blue dress has intense facial expressions...

[nlbqz]

Bravo! Thanks for posting it !!

[rubenmsk]

the violinist with the blue dress looks like to janine jansen!!

[franlutt]

Excellent! Five distinct voices in a perfect cooperation!

Franz Luttenberger, Uppsala, Sweden

[TheKoteche]

TYhis is very heartfully played and really beautiful musicianship... i think the rough recording adds to it!

[DrakeGrad]

Gary Hoffman is my Cousin.....

[tylerknowlton]

why are these ladies dressed like go-go dancers?

[SueTheMoon]

i just realised these ppl didnt rly practise together (last minute stuff)

[violinoamore]

@SueTheMoon How do you know ?

[otacon451]

240p im thankful, but ouch

[hollytree1996]

My quintet at my high school (And I know if anyone reads this they're gonna be like PSHHH HIGH SCHOOL, but i go to one of the best arts high schools in the USA) and we aren't taking it nearly this fast. They can pull it off, not many people can pull it off at that tempo cleanly! Bravo. I wish to study under Paul Neubauer (being a violist myself) when I go to college.

[Liza1977]

Amazing performance! Great string players!

[lyungling88]

What a beautiful performance.....and a lot of hard, honest work!  Bravissimo!

Thanks for posting it.

[Lissbirds]

I looove that third movement. :)

[Lissbirds]

16:43 sounds like "Nature Boy" by Nat King Cole...

[1brewski2]

@Lissbirds That's where the theme of "Nature Boy" was taken from! So it isn't a coincidence. Dvorak goes in a different direction after stating the theme, so the pop song has some originality to it.

[michibasan]

Excellent string players, but not crazy about the pianist.

[4interest]

@michibasan i see what you mean, but i think it's mainly because string instruments are so expressive (i.e. vibrato, tone, bowing) that next to them the piano sounds plunky.

[michibasan]

@4interest That's certainly true; although then the burden is on the pianist to match the expressiveness, which clearly was not the case here, either in sound or emotion.

[4interest]

@michibasan true enough =)

[phillazmcdillaz]

My high school group just played this piece last year (or at least the first movement). We were going to play it for the state festival but we found out too late that it had been taken off of the list of pieces that we could play. Still, it was nice when we got the only standing ovation of the night at my school's spring concert.

[manthasagittarius]

Wonderful -- thank you for posting. How Dvorak's cello writing sings! A warm, splendid melodist no matter what the instrumentation really -- I'm a singer myself, but I play woodwinds too, and there isn't a work where a musician can't find passages that seem to be written for him to sing or play his heart out.

[elgatosucio]

Greetings. I wonder if you can tell me how you uploaded such a long video. I have some concerts I d like to share. Thanks.

[PIanoReview]

A solid performance, but there still is a way to go to reach the Borodon's legendary performance with Richter at the piano. Also, pianist Rudolph Firkusny performed this work with string quartet remarkably. Here, there are some very fine instrumentalists individeually but the cohesion and warmth does not match that of certain major string quartets. This always is the trade-off between using "virtuosos" and and an ensemble that really "gels."

[ZemArte]

Gracioso colóquio

das cordas doces, cantantes

- convite ao contemplar.

[42Squidge]

This is a great performance. The negative comments remind me of how much recordings and the editing process have made people much more picky about live performances; I suppose it's inevitable but I'd rather see a slightly flawed live concert than listen to a recording with 80 edits in it any day of the week. :)

I love Paul Neubauer's playing in this.

[Lapez13]

@42Squidge I couldn't agree more - I have 10 times as much respect for someone who can give a fantastic live performance than for those who provide technology-perfected studio recordings.

[plemax]

i really like first violin playing. Violist not so much.

[firusfirusfirus]

cest magnifique

[wagneristhebest]

16:00(L)

[garebear4000]

an error occured?

[portlandbethr]

You should clap between movements if you have no clue that its not the end of the piece OR, you are so moved by the that you just must. I'm sure the later was the case in this instance.

[jiamo]

lol I clapped too because it's hard not to.

[gnsvrg]

I think part of the audience had not idea that wasn't the end of the piece... actually it might sound like a finale. Moreover, the musicians seem to smile when people clap. Of course nobody's to blame: if you want to clap, you can do it! :) In my opinion, musicians shouldn't tune their instruments in the pauses... that really breaks the continuity. Despite this, it's a great performance; I saw this piece live just once and it's very touching!

[jaschweigert]

The musicians smile when people clap between movements because they are thinking, stupid people."

So, you would rather have an out of tune performance? It may break the continuity of the performance, but one of the worst feelings is to have to sit through an out of tune performance. On top of that, as a violist I know what it is actually like to have to play and try to adjust to an out of tune instrument during a performance. It is a pain in the ass, and makes sense to just tune the instrument.

[gnsvrg]

Of course it's necessary for them to tune their instruments... I wrote "musicians shouldn't tune"... bad English, my fault :) I just mean that it's a bad thing that string instruments go out of tune while playing, but it's unavoidable.

[dzeljpiano]

More than beautiful playing !!!!!

[NickoVolodya]

Une oeuvre majeure du répertoire de chambre. Très belle interprétation de ce quintette, bravo.

[musicdivinemusic]

Beautiful piece, all excellent musicians, especially the 1st violin.

[TheSaxyBandGeek]

My goodness, that lady turning the pages is incredible! Such form! (jk)

[Superclarinetmorman1]

i love you

[henryrondonbill]

WOW!!  Beautiful

[BloodyRussian]

You're not supposed to clap in between movements, or so I was told.

[Rheesoman]

its true you're suppsoed to wait till the end....

and i used to get a little peed when someone did clap inbetween movemtns lol its not over yet

[bob1dole]

Neubauer rocks the shit out the 2nd mvt.... amazing

[182278]

holy eff, I know RIGHT?

i think every violinist should suck on that part.

[joshi3joshi]

umm.. neubauer is the violist..not the violinst lol

[182278]

umm... i know. i auditioned in front of him 5 months ago. i just made an anti-violin joke because people think all violas suck when paul neubauer is one of the most awesome musicians alive.

[iwishatx11x11]

viola power!

[ArtThroughtheAges]

I Loved the Whole Performance!

Marvelous!

[piargno]

Wonderful performance! Is it me, or does the pianist have problems with 2 against 3?? Just wondering if anyone else noticed ...

[piano960]

she's actually doing a really good job overall. where's that 2 against 3 you're talking about?

[piargno]

At around 7:05, those triplets don't match the wonderful triplets in the cello; also in the first mvt. (second time around 14:00), the pianist has a triplet quarter note figure while the other musicians are playing normal rhythms - those are cheated; mvt. II motivic triplets are rushed; the bothersome triplets for me are 19 into 20:30. Perhaps it's just an "expressive" thing, but it's really unnecessarily uneven for me.

But it's overall an impressive, spriited performance. Rushed, but sweet.

[symphonicrevolution]

@piargno I agree, and I think this is especially noticeable especially around 20:00.

[mybad823]

Very fine group.

The violist has an unbelievable tone quality.

The pianist seems to have too much of a harsh tone.

The 1st violinist needs to loosen up a bit.

[crAsian]

why doesnt the page turner get credit

[MrMiyagi11]

your username is incredible.

just sayin

[siLveRscOpe13x]

@crAsian Yeah I know! that takes so much practice!

[gminorre]

@crAsian as a constant page turner I highly appreciate this comment, they have the toughest job of all! xD

[zachdellinger]

halarious

[fortissimo25]

first violinist looks really tall. yes, very nice quintet. thanx for posting this :)

[randytooth]

Gary Hoffman!

[garnetsphinx]

Bravo, bravissimo! The Dumka, especially!

[viewbody]

yah so, cuz it sings to her,

[emilysayshi1234]

love this song

[fervorviolinist]

(gasp) Did you really just call this piece a "song"!?!?

[emilysayshi1234]

*gasp* i did!!!

[taiwan886]

Everyone's great, but Paul Neubauer....amazing

[pviola314]

Taiwan, I have to say I agree with you on every comment I've seen you make. Paul is 真的好听对不对？

[182278]

how do you get those number things?

and what do they mean?

[jeteyes115]

I think you're referring to 7:05?

[mikeinkc]

Hoffman playing is warm, robust, and musical. One of the great cellist of the day.

[Wochechule]

This kvintet I think is the best:-) I love it very much!!!:-*

[jamsnastizz]

i'm recording this in three days... i like a lot of the style choices here.. wish it was a better recording sound quality wise it would be really sick

[cellomille]

I agree with viviane. Up with music! I love Gary Hoffman!

[viviane57]

Great! I'm very fond of this quintet. thanks for sending this video.